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Thanks again for the ideas everyone. Just an update, they were already getting ice cream truck and a house set from parents and family. So we decided to get them the juniors princess castle 10668. It was a good price, castle themed, had a girl, and we could get them another small gift to go with it too. They do like superhero stuff like ninja turtles, but already have some of the more inexpensive sets. They don't have storm or wonder woman yet, though, so maybe next year. Toxikita is way cool, could have been an exciting choice but we went with the less exciting but more castley choice. Yeah, it was for 2014 Christmas presents but they are extremely excited about Elves already. Medieval Market Village, I wish! Too expensive but yes that would be awesome. I buy female heads for myself from BL, so I'll probably end up doing that for them as well eventually. Haha DRS... Yeah research institute wasn't available for a good price at the time we bought their gifts, so it wasn't an option.

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Thank you justafrog and clxmouth for your replies, much appreciated. I guess I shouldn't have said exclusively male for the Castle sets, but as clxmouth said, the only girl is a princess that needs rescuing. Great idea though, but I'd rather get the Gatehouse Raid and buy female minifigures that match separately to go with the set. Even if that means I have to get a set of Castle soldiers and some extra female heads to give them a sex change. I hadn't thought of the arctic exploration series, very interesting. And I do love the Witch-king battle set, and since it is lower priced, I might be able to get that set along with a Castle or City set. Great ideas!

Thanks for the idea, they are cute and cool, but not really what I'm looking for. They don't really match their current sets in scale, it would be like a giant monkey monster invading their fancy tower castle lands. Actually maybe that would be cool! Still, any more ideas?

My personal opinion is yes I feel that Lego should include more female characters and they should be different than how they are currently being made. Most of the female minifigures I see either have boobs and cinched waists printed on them or don't match regular Lego because they're "Friends" type which look like polly pocket doll type figures. They're also all so... girly. Like they wear skirts or dresses, have cleavage showing, include flowers, are in shopping or beauty parlor sets, aren't adventurers, are a halloween witch, or are in bright (usually pink) colors. Often a combination of those things. The male figures look cooler, have more variety in colors, have weapons and armor, and other cool stuff. Where's a girl in armor or a space suit or whatever printed like the males, but with a female head? Doing something adventurous and exciting like the males do? I personally use the cooler male bodies and put a female head on them. But I don't see why I should have all these headless female bodies and bodyless male heads piling up, except that Lego still needs more female characters. Also, the part here: "Also the themes just call for it: Knights, Pirates, Constructionworkers, Star Wars, LOTR, Hobbit, Superheroes (It's not up to LEGO to create new characters for those...)" I disagree with Knights (or Castle or Kingdoms) and Pirates there. Knights/Castle/Kingdoms could have girls in them (that aren't the princess) that are female warriors. There absolutely have been female armor-wearing sword-swinging horse-riding women in the past and even if there weren't, why not include women warriors anyway because they're cool. There were also female pirates in real history, yes less common than men, but they existed. And again, even if they didn't - who cares? Female pirates are cool and there should absolutely be female pirates in their sets.

I'm looking to buy a Lego set for girls that are 6-8 years old. One of them has a lot of Friends and some Disney princess sets, as well as tubs with her dad's old Lego to play with. The other has only Friends sets but would like different themed sets. What set do you think would be fun for a girl at that age that isn't Friends or Disney? I'm looking for something that might have a female minifigure in the set, maybe treasure, a castle, cool building or something. All the Castle sets have exclusively male minifigures, which is disappointing to me because I love Castle sets and I think they would too. Cloud Cuckoo Palace is the best I've thought of, but one of the girls already has it and the other might like it but she would probably prefer something less haphazard. Any ideas? Thanks!